From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8636 invoked by alias); 7 Jun 2006 06:19:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 8532 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jun 2006 06:19:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zipcon.net (HELO zipcon.net) (209.221.136.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:19:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 812 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2006 23:20:22 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO efn.org) (209.221.136.20) by mail.zipcon.net with SMTP; 6 Jun 2006 23:20:22 -0700 Received: by efn.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 23:19:09 -0700 Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:19:00 -0000 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin fork problem maybe? Message-ID: <20060607061909.GA2592@efn.org> References: <4485E5F3.7010700@tlinx.org> <4485EB68.9F685880@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4485EB68.9F685880@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00403.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:54:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Linda W wrote: > > > Windows just doesn't support forking at all, as far as I know. > > activeperl emulates forking using win32 threads. I don'tknow how cygwin > > handles it, but my guess is that it's not very well :-( > > This smells like total FUD. This person that admittedly does not use > Cygwin nor obviously know anything about Cygwin says that it's a fork > problem and that's that? Fork may be a problem for Activestate but > Cygwin fully emulates fork just fine, as does Cygwin's perl. The Cygwin > DLL goes to extreme lengths to make sure this work. Debatably, not as extreme as the lengths AS Perl goes to :)